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Update to Azure DevOps Projects support for Azure Kubernetes Service

February 21, 2019 Feb 21, 2019 02/21/19

Shikha Kaul

Kubernetes is going from strength to strength as adoption across the industry continues to grow. But there are still plenty of customers coming to container orchestration for the first time while also building up their familiarity with Docker and containers in general. We see the need to help teams go from a container image, or just a git repo...

Persisting Settings and Preferences in Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Essentials

February 21, 2019 Feb 21, 2019 02/21/19

Shikha Kaul

An essential part of any mobile application is the ability to persist data. Sometimes that is a large amount of data that requires a database, but often it is smaller pieces of data such as settings and preferences that need to be persisted between application launches. This is where Xamarin.Essentials can help out with its wide range of cross...

.NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 will reach End of Life on June 27, 2019

February 21, 2019 Feb 21, 2019 02/21/19

Shikha Kaul

.NET Core 1.0 was released on June 27, 2016 and .NET Core 1.1 was released on November 16, 2016. As an LTS release, .NET Core 1.0 is supported for three years. .NET Core 1.1 fits into the same support timeframe as .NET Core 1.0. .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 will reach end of life and go out of support on June 27, 2019, three years after the initial ....

Join us April 2nd for the Launch of Visual Studio 2019!

February 19, 2019 Feb 19, 2019 02/19/19

Shikha Kaul

At Connect(); a little over two months ago, we released the first Visual Studio 2019 Preview. Based on your inputs, we’ve made several improvements to Visual Studio 2019 in our endeavor to make this the best Visual Studio yet. On behalf of our entire team, I’m excited to announce the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2019 on April 2, 2019 ...

Using Azure DevOps from the Command Line

February 19, 2019 Feb 19, 2019 02/19/19

Shikha Kaul

We talk with customers who love the command line. Donovan Brown maintains the community VSTeam command for folks that love PowerShell, but we’re pleased to announce that we now have a public preview of Azure DevOps extension for the Azure CLI which is available cross platform...

Azure DevOps Roadmap update for 2019 Q1

February 19, 2019 Feb 19, 2019 02/19/19

Shikha Kaul

Last week we updated the Features Timeline to provide visibility on our key investments for this quarter. The features listed below link to the public roadmap project where you can find more details about each item. Here are a few highlights on some of the features for Q1 and Q2...